FROTH IN GERMANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 268, 21 November 1901, Page 2

FROTH IN GERMANY.

The anti-Chamberlain meetings in England give an example of what may be brought about by misrepresentation. The cabled reports of a speech made by Mr Chamberlain were not properly translated, either through carelessness or a wil ful intention to mislead, and the result has been that throughout Germany a bitterly hostile spirit has been worked up. The indignation has found vent at various meetings, but at none has there been such violent language used as at that reported in our cablegrams this morning. One speaker openly advised the assassination of Mr Chamberlain. It is shameful that such license should be permitted in a civilised community, and it is surprising that the German Government should permit it. When anything is said in Germany about the ruling powers punishment swiftly follows, and even were Mr Chamberlain as black as he has been painted by bis enemies, it would bo thought that no Government would permit the use of such violent language as that which was openly made at the meeting referred to. The man who advised murder was the worse coward in that he advised that the assassination should be perpetrated by the Boers. It is perhaps as well for Mr Chamberin'''-' personally that such virulence shown against him o'- ... because if there is one thing more than another that causes a Britisher, to be loyal it is the iuipertiuent interference of outsiders in the affairs ot tho nation. Then the usually indifferent Britishers .harden up, and begin to show that indifference is merely the careless assumption of superiority which can promptly be put to the test when there is need of it.